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By Alisha Ryu 5-61285 01 April 2008 In Somalia, continuing insecurity, a surge in food and fuel prices, and uncontrolled printing of money have created runaway inflation that is threatening the lives of millions already suffering from 18 years of war
On Sunday, the remote pirate stronghold of Hobyo in the Galmudug region of central Somalia fell to Islamist militants. The growing strength of Islamist groups in the coastal area may be tied to local anger over piracy and deepening poverty. A pirate
A just-released Human Rights Watch report accuses all parties to the conflict in Somalia of regularly committing war crimes that contribute to the Horn of Africa nation's humanitarian catastrophe. But Ethiopia is taking strong exception to charges m
The United Nations refugee agency says nearly 170,000 people have now been displaced from their homes in Somalia's capital since Islamist insurgents launched a renewed offensive in early May. A Somali woman and her child sit in front of a makeshift
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it is increasing its aid to hundreds of thousands of destitute people in Somalia. It said drought, floods and the effects of 17 years of armed conflict and lawlessness have taken a terrible toll on t
Somalia's government said it has repulsed a military attack by foreign-backed insurgents trying to overrun the presidential compound in Mogadishu and oust President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. News agencies report at least 110 people, mostly civilia
Somalia's government has played down reports that Ethiopian troops have re-entered the country in recent days. Islamist insurgents have clashed with pro-government militias near the Ethiopian border in central Somalia, and continue an assault on the
Sunday's suicide car bombing at a military camp in the Somali capital is raising alarm about how much foreign support the radical al-Shabab group may be receiving in its ongoing war against Somalia's U.N.-backed government. An explosion at an allege
Al-Shabab Fuels Tensions Between Kenya, Somalia Kenya's decision this past week to send troops over the border into Somalia in pursuit of al-Shabab militants appears to be a major shift in foreign policy. The full extent of Kenya's operations are not
Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan flew out of Mogadishu on a chartered plane Wednesday, 15 months after they were kidnapped by gunmen on a road outside of Mogadishu. Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 26 November 200
Somali kidnappers have released six foreign hostages. The four European aid workers and their two Kenyan pilots were released Tuesday after eight months of captivity. A car carrying people alleged to be former hostages in Somalia leaves Nairobi's Wi
Al-Shabab militants in the south-central Somali town of Baidoa have beheaded seven people in what is believed to the largest mass execution carried out in Somalia by the al-Qaida-linked group since 2006. Armed Al-Shabaab fighters patrol Bakara Marke
A spokesman says Ethiopian troops will complete their withdrawal from Somalia within days, and that sufficient precautions have been made to prevent a feared power vacuum when they are gone. Troop convoys have been seen pulling back to positions acr
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 October 2007 Uganda has sent diplomats to Somalia to help mediate a peace deal between the country's embattled transitional government and its opponents. As VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in
By Catherine Maddux Washington 08 October 2006 The emergence of a strong Islamic movement in Somalia has dramatically altered the politics of the country, severely weakening a transitional government that mediators had hoped would bring an end to ye
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 July 2007 Opponents of Somalia's Western-backed transitional government have announced they will hold a conference in Eritrea in September to form a coalition whose main objective is to end Ethiopia's occupation of Somalia. V
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 March 2008 The U.N. Security Council is looking at options, proposed by the secretary general, for stabilizing Somalia. They include the possibility of sending a U.N. peacekeeping force to that country to take ov
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 January 2007 Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (R) with his PM Ali Mohamed Gedi during a media briefing in Mogadishu, 09 Jan 2007 Somalia's interim president say a U.S. strike late Monday on al-Qaida hideouts in
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 07 April 2008 France has mobilized members of an elite military police force in response to the hijacking of a French yacht last week by Somali pirates. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, the troops have been sent to Djibo
In Somalia, militant Islamist factions are testing the resolve of the country's new interim president, who was sworn in Saturday pledging to restore governance in a society torn apart by nearly two decades of civil war. The parliamentary election of